Minimum standards and qualification required
Lot 1: Family Support Team for the Meirionnydd Area of Gwynedd
Skills and Specialist Knowledge
• The ability to work innovatively and creatively within a multi-disciplined context.
• Skills in effective work planning and in reaching targets and accomplishing tasks.
• Awareness of ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences), and the ability to use this information to develop and implement effective interventions.
• Knowledge of safeguarding, childcare legislation, and Child Protection procedures.
• The ability to identify parents' parenting capacity, and risk and protective factors.
• Understanding of a child’s development.
The ability to identify and measure needs by using various methods.
• Skilled in preparing and creating clear, concise and effective reports and documents.
Lot 2: A Family Support Service; Therapeutic, Counselling and Mediation Services
Applicants should have experience delivering services to children, young people and families, including those affected by Domestic Abuse, suffer from poor mental health and have a learning disability. To meet the needs of users, sessions may be centre based, community based or within the home.
Lot 3: Flying Start Family Support Team for the Meirionnydd Area of Gwynedd
The successful bidder will have the office capacity to host own staff and accommodate staff attached/seconded to their team from Gwynedd Council (1.6 x Flying Start Family Support Workers).
Staff should be confident to provide a bilingual service.
Practitioners should have appropriate skills, and be appropriately trained to work with parents. They should have appropriate personal skills and attributes and her work should be based on the principles and values of the National Occupational Standards for Working with Parents. The 'Family Partnership Model' (formerly the parent adviser Model) also suggests that the following properties should complement the knowledge and expertise of those supporting parents (Davis and Meltzer, 2007)
• Active attention/listening;
• Encouragement and audit;
• Respond with empathy;
• Summarising;
• Enabling change;
• Negotiating;
• Problem solving
Associated National Occupational Standards for Working with Parents
For the provision we have highlighted the relevant National Occupational Standards for working with parents, which set out the competencies that the workforce is required to have to carry out these functions:
• Operate within legal, ethical and professional policy and limits when working with families.
• Engage with parents to foster and maintain effective supportive and empowering relationships.
• Work with parents to enable them to meet the needs of their family.
• Enable parents to be referred to specialists and other services, in accordance with the required protocols.
• Use consistent and proactive intervention approaches when working with parents with high levels of need to enable positive changes in their lives.
• Enable parents to improve the effectiveness of parent-child relationships.
• Deliver parenting programmes and other structured support for parenting to parent groups.
• Discuss and agree with parents and agencies the aims and purpose of work with parents
• Undertake assessments with parents and their families to develop and co-ordinate the delivery of a shared support plan
• Establish and maintain effective Supervision, Training and continuing professional development for parent practitioners.
• Develop and maintain professional competence as a parent practitioner.
• Influencing and contributing to policies and development opportunities for parental services
• Developing and improving parental services.
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